Sketchbook

Title:

N. Conway, N.H. 1860

Object Name:

Sketchbook

Object ID:

2020.023.02

Creator:

Champney, Edwin G. (1842-1899)Artist

Date:

1860-1861

Description:

Sketchbook. Pencil sketches of North Conway, NH, and Woburn, MA, by Edwin G. Champney (1842-1899). Horizontal format. Paper with brown leather binding; pencil on paper. "E. G. Champney Woburn Mass. / 1860" written in pencil on inside of front cover. "N. Conway, N.H. 1860 / Mr. Coffin's house." written in pencil on first page. 42 sketches on 31 sheets (62 pages). Most sketches are dated summer and fall 1860. Five are dated 1861, all in the Woburn, MA, area, including Horn Pond.

List of place names, all in the North Conway area, written in pencil inside back cover:
Lovells [Lovewell] Pond
Chocorua Mountain
Echo Lake
Liebenwald Park
2nd Ledge
Diana's Baths
Pudding Pond
Kearsarge Mountain [Kearsarge North]
Peaked Mountain

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-4.2 W-6.2 D-0.4 inches

Provenance:

Edwin Graves Champney (1842-1899) was born in Boston, MA, son of George M. and Lucy A. Champney, and nephew of landscape painter Benjamin Champney, with whom he studied art in 1861. After traveling to Europe and studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, Champney returned to live in Boston, where he worked as an illustrator and landscape painter, taught art at the Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, and worked as an assistant to John LaFarge on the decoration of Trinity Church, Boston. Champney married Martha A. Capron, July 21, 1880. He died in Arlington, MA, 1899.

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles and Gloria Vogel

People:

Champney, Edwin G. (1842-1899)

Subjects:

White Mountains, North Conway, NH, Mount Chocorua, Mount Kearsarge (North), Mount Washington, Echo Lake, Woburn, MA, Sketchbooks, Saco River